Budget

Congress has yet to finalize its fiscal year 2015 spending bill, though lawmakers expect a deal soon as a Thursday night deadline looms. After several delays in releasing the compromise […]

As the House passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 for the second time and sent the newest compromise version along to the Senate for consideration next […]

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told a House panel on Tuesday that Congress needs to approve his department’s fiscal appropriations request for FY ’15 or risk jeopardizing homeland security. “Let […]

Leaders of the House and Senate committees responsible for overseeing the policies of the Coast Guard on Monday said they have agreed on legislation to authorize the service, which is […]

The House Armed Services Committee filed a new bill to serve as the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 on Tuesday afternoon that provides $521 billion in base […]

House and Senate appropriations committee staffers spent their Thanksgiving holiday weekend hard at work, negotiating a full appropriations bill for fiscal year 2015 to take the place of the continuing […]

The Defense Department will submit a fiscal year 2016 budget that is above the sequester spending caps and includes all the same efficiencies Congress has rejected for several years now, […]

Several members of the House and Senate sent a clear message to the Air Force on Thursday that they were not willing to accept any compromise deals on the A-10 […]

The Obama administration on Monday sent Congress a $5.6 billion budget amendment, including $5 billion for the Defense Department, to fund war-related operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and […]

Defense Department Comptroller Michael McCord said he is not confident Congress will provide the department a budget when lawmakers return after next week’s election, but rather he’s hopeful that the […]